Prayer Quotes - Page 33

• Spread out your petition before God, and then say, "Thy will, not mine, be done." The sweetest lesson I have learned in God's school is to let the Lord choose for me.

  Dwight L. Moody

  Wisdom, School, Done

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• If we do not love one another, we certainly shall not have much power with God in prayer.

  Dwight L. Moody

  Death, Children, Love One Another

  Dwight L Moody (1987). “Prevailing Prayer”, p.62, Moody Publishers

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• Prayer covers the whole of man's life. There is no thought, feeling, yearning, or desire, however low, trifling, or vulgar we may deem it, which if it affects our real interest or happiness, we may not lay before God and be sure of sympathy.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Real, Men, Feelings

  Henry Ward BEECHER (1865). “Notes from Plymouth Pulpit: a collection of memorable passages from the discourses of H. W. Beecher. With a sketch of Mr. Beecher and the Lecture-Room, by Augusta Moore. New edition, revised, and greatly enlarged [of the second series of “Life Thoughts”].”, p.67

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• His nature is such that our often coming does not tire him. The whole burden of the whole life of every man may be rolled on to God and not weary him, though it has wearied man.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Men, Doe, May

  Henry Ward Beecher, Augusta Moore (1859). “Notes from Plymouth Pulpit: A Collection of Memorable Passages from the Discourses of Henry Ward Beecher, with a Sketch of Mr. Beecher and the Lecture Room”, p.67

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• In Fellowship; alone To God, with Faith, draw near, Approach His Courts, besiege His Throne With all the power of Prayer.

  Charles Wesley

  Thrones, Fellowship, Court

  Charles Wesley (2014). “Wesley's Hymns and the Methodist Sunday-School Hymn-Book”, p.272, Ravenio Books

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• Some men will spin out a long prayer telling God who and what he is, or they pray out a whole system of divinity. Some people preach, others exhort the people, till everybody wishes they would stop, and God wishes so, too, most undoubtedly.

  Charles Grandison Finney

  Godly, Men, Long

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• Temptations which accompany the working day will be conquered on the basis of the morning breakthrough to God. Decisions, demanded by work, become easier and simpler where they are made not in the fear of men, but only in the sight of God. He wants to give us today the power which we need for our work.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Morning, Work, Men

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• Faith, and hope, and patience and all the strong, beautiful, vital forces of piety are withered and dead in a prayerless life. The life of the individual believer, his personal salvation, and personal Christian graces have their being, bloom, and fruitage in prayer.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Beautiful, Christian, Strong

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• By prayer, the ability is secured to feel the law of love, to speak according to the law of love, and to do everything in harmony with the law of love.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Law, Speak, Harmony

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• Prayer is of transcendent importance. Prayer is the mightiest agent to advance God's work. Praying hearts and hands only can do God's work. Prayer succeeds when all else fails.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Heart, Hands, Agents

  Edward McKendree Bounds (1920). “Purpose in Prayer”, p.52, CCEL

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• The goal of prayer is the ear of God, a goal that can only be reached by patient and continued and continuous waiting upon Him, pouring out our heart to Him and permitting Him to speak to us. Only by so doing can we expect to know Him, and as we come to know Him better we shall spend more time in His presence and find that presence a constant and ever-increasing delight.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Heart, Goal, Waiting

  Edward McKendree Bounds (1920). “Purpose in Prayer”, p.43, CCEL

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• Prayer is a trade to be learned. We must be apprentices and serve our time at it. Painstaking care, much thought, practice and labour are required to be a skillful tradesman in praying. Practice in this, as well as in all other trades, makes perfect.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Practice, Perfect, Care

  Edward McKendree Bounds (1920). “Purpose in Prayer”, p.31, CCEL

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• Natural ability and educational advantages do not figure as factors in this matter of prayer; but a capacity for faith, the power of a thorough consecration, the ability of self-littleness, an absolute losing of one's self in God's glory and an ever present and insatiable yearning and seeking after all the fullness of God.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Educational, Self, Matter

  Edward McKendree Bounds (1907). “Preacher and Prayer”

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• Other duties become pressing and absorbing and crowd our prayer. "Choked to death" would be the coroner's verdict in many cases of dead praying if an inquest could be secured on this dire, spiritual calamity.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Spiritual, Would Be, Crowds

  Edward McKendree Bounds (1920). “Purpose in Prayer”, p.69, CCEL

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• I feel it is far better to begin with God, to see His face first, to get my soul near Him before it is near another. In general it is best to have at least one hour alone with God before engaging in anything else.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  God, Christian, Religious

  Edward McKendree Bounds (1920). “Purpose in Prayer”

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• Trouble and prayer are closely related. Trouble often drives men to God in prayer, while prayer is but the voice of men in trouble.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Men, Voice, Trouble

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• Private place and plenty of time are the life of prayer.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Plenty, Bounds

  Edward McKendree Bounds (1920). “Purpose in Prayer”, p.71, CCEL

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• Straight praying is never born of crooked conduct.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Praying, Born, Crooked

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• Praying which does not result in pure conduct is a delusion. We have missed the whole office and virtue of praying if it does not rectify conduct. It is in the very nature of things that we must quit praying, or quit bad conduct.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Office, Doe, Quitting

  Edward McKendree Bounds (1920). “Purpose in Prayer”, p.76, CCEL

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• Our praying, to be strong, must be buttressed by holy living. The life of faith perfects the prayer of faith.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Life, Faith, Christian

  Edward McKendree Bounds (1920). “Purpose in Prayer”, p.75, CCEL

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• We cannot talk to God strongly when we have not lived for God strongly. The closet cannot be made holy to God when the life has not been holy to God.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Holy, Made, Closets

  Edward McKendree Bounds (1920). “Purpose in Prayer”, p.75, CCEL

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• If we would have God in the closet, God must have us out of the closet. There is no way of praying to God, but by living to God.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Way, Praying, Closets

  Edward McKendree Bounds (1920). “Purpose in Prayer”

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• Men would pray better if they lived better. They would get more from God if they lived more obedient and well-pleasing to God.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Men, Praying, Wells

  Edward McKendree Bounds (1920). “Purpose in Prayer”

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• We can never know God as it is our privilege to know Him by brief repetitions that are requests for personal favors, and nothing more.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Favors, Privilege, Repetition

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• To say prayers in a decent, delicate way is not heavy work. But to pray really, to pray till hell feels the ponderous stroke, to pray till the iron gates of difficulty are opened, till the mountains of obstacles are removed, till the mists are exhaled and the clouds are lifted, and the sunshine of a cloudless day brightens-this is hard work, but it is God's work, and man's best labor.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Hard Work, Sunshine, Men

  Edward McKendree Bounds (1920). “Purpose in Prayer”, p.63, CCEL

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